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Why did Mozilla lay of 250 after a previous round of layoffs?
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/mozilla-lays-off-250/
The official internal message started with:
We are making significant changes at Mozilla Corporation today. Pre-COVID, our plan for 2020 was a year of change: building a better internet by accelerating product value in Firefox, increasing innovation, and adjusting our finances to ensure financial stability over the long term. We started with immediate cost-saving measures such as pausing our hiring, reducing our wellness stipend and cancelling our All-Hands. But COVID-19 has accelerated the need and magnified the depth for these changes. Our pre-COVID plan is no longer workable. We have talked about the need for change — including the likelihood of layoffs — since the spring. Today these changes become real.
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But every tech biz I know has benefited from Covid except rare cases like AirBnB that has direct exposure to the travel industry.
During Covid there has been a big move towards remote work and remote earning, and surely Mozilla would have benefited?
I’ve also noticed a trend over the past two years of using Covid as a justification when the real reason is something less comfortable. Covid has become the new “to spend time with their family”.
So did Covid really affect Mozilla that quickly and that badly that they had to ditch a quarter of their team? This happened in August 2020.
- detaro 5y ago> and surely Mozilla would have benefited? What does Mozilla do where that would have benefited them financially?
- uberman 5y agoPresumably with more people stuck at home and working/schooling from home there would have been more people browsing. That however misses the forest for the trees. The real problem is not Firefox. Google basically pays to keep Firefox alive. The real problem is the larger Mozilla Corporation. It wanders aimlessly through a sea of failed side projects looking for something to do to justify it's existence. In my opinion their entire problem is leadership and statement like this: "Baker wants Mozilla to remain a “technical powerhouse of the internet activist movement,” yet she also acknowledges that the organization as a whole must also focus on economics and work on creating sustainable business models" So which is it?